Ujjain

An ancient city situated on the eastern bank of the Kshipra River, Ujjain was the most prominent city on the Malwa plateau of central India for much of its history. It emerged as the political centre of central India around 600 BCE. It was the capital of the ancient Avanti kingdom, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas. It remained an important political, commercial and cultural centre of central India until early 19th century, when the British administrators decided to develop Indore as an alternative to it. Ujjain continues to be an important place of pilgrimage for Shaivites, Vaishnavites and followers of Shakta.

History

Excavations at Kayatha (around 26km from Ujjain) have revealed chalcolithic agricultural settlements dating to around 2000 BCE. According to Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund, Avanti, whose capital was Ujjain, "was one of the earliest outposts in central India" and showed signs of early urbanization around 700 BCE. Around 600 BCE, Ujjain emerged as the political, commercial and cultural centre of Malwa plateau.

Ujjain

An ancient city situated on the eastern bank of the Kshipra River, Ujjain was the most prominent city on the Malwa plateau of central India for much of its history. It emerged as the political centre of central India around 600 BCE. It was the capital of the ancient Avanti kingdom, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas. It remained an important political, commercial and cultural centre of central India until early 19th century, when the British administrators decided to develop Indore as an alternative to it. Ujjain continues to be an important place of pilgrimage for Shaivites, Vaishnavites and followers of Shakta.

History

Excavations at Kayatha (around 26km from Ujjain) have revealed chalcolithic agricultural settlements dating to around 2000 BCE. According to Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund, Avanti, whose capital was Ujjain, "was one of the earliest outposts in central India" and showed signs of early urbanization around 700 BCE. Around 600 BCE, Ujjain emerged as the political, commercial and cultural centre of Malwa plateau.

The sasur, beti and damaad team from the show Mangalam Dangalam, that is set in Indore, couldn’t stop raving about the city’s scrumptious food and warm people during their recent visit ...Manoj Joshi ... I always travel to Ujjain whenever I visit Indore, and cannot do without sampling the food at Sarafa, Chhappan and Rau ... Manisha Rawat ... Karanvir Sharma ... ....

Rahul Gandhi will start his tour by offering prayers at the Mahakal temple in Ujjain. He will spend around 45 mins at the Mahakal temple at Ujjain. According to party sources, at Ujjain, gathering will be kept about 60 ft away from the Congress chief during the public meeting and the police has combed up the entire area....

Congress chief will hold rallies, roadshows, public meetings and interact with different sections of people including businessmen, during his two-day canvassing at Ujjain, Jhabua, Indore, Dhar, Khargone and Mhow on Monday and Tuesday ... In absence of the public meeting, Congress chief will address the gathering from the bus he will be travelling.”....

jaipur Updated. Jul 17, 2018 22.02 IST. HT Correspondent ... In neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, where assembly elections are also due, Shah had flagged off CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Jan Ashirvad yatra from Ujjain on July 14. Raje will travel through the state for 45 days, interacting with the voters and highlighting the achievements of her government....

“You cannot count the number of godmen in Ujjain. There’s one in every area,” says Vijay Sharma, who works at a travel agency in Indore, 40 km away.During the Ujjain Simhastha, a Kumbha Mela that occurs once in 12 years on the banks of the Shipra river, ascetics from across India converge on this town....

BHOPAL. Violence broke out in Hoshangabad around midnight on Wednesday after a sand-laden dumper ran a 28-year-old farmer over near Gujjarwada village ...PCC chief Kamal Nath said ... Most of the trucks were from Indore and Ujjain,” SP said. But why would trucks from Ujjaintravel 250km to ferry sand when there are mines closer to the temple town? ... ....

Raman Bala, who played a minor role in Newton, as a CRPF soldier, is currently shooting a Tamil-Hindi bilingual titled Bypass... He ends up travelling with a few sadhus, who are walking from Ujjain to Kapilavastu ... “We have shot love in towns Dehradun, Rishikesh, and the other places that the hero travels to in the film ... ....

A 30-year-old man was arrested for posing as on-duty catering staff from Ujjain railway station by Railway Protection Force...UjjainRPF police station in charge Harsh Chouhan said that the accused started travelling in AC compartments of long distance trains- Avantika Express, Indore-Patna and Malwa Express- which originate from Indore....